After kickaha's appointment on Tuesday, we wandered around Manhattan for a while. He desperately needs a new pair of boots, but that wasn't in the cards. We settled on a cupcake from the Buttercup Bake Shop instead. :) I'm coming to believe that the City That Never Sleeps is really just a city with day and night shifts. Any errands we need to run ( Read more... )

Not sure how I missed this article last week (or how in the world it will actually work) but Evil Dead will be an off-Broadway show.

In other news, please get DMX off the road as well as all of the other bad drivers up here...

ETA: Site for the show: http://www.evildeadthemusical.com

Friday night, for our fifth wedding anniversary, we saw La Jetée (1962, 28 min, Chris Marker) followed by the movie it inspired, 12 Monkeys (1995, 129 min, Terry Gilliam*) at the Jacob Burns Film Center. Pauline Kael called La Jetée, "the greatest science fiction movie I've ever seen." It is a post-apocalyptic film almost entirely comprised of ( Read more... )

Meeting people is going very slowly up here, but interactions with people (those who are willing to speak) have a common theme:

[They are moving to/Their parents are retiring to/Their (brother/sister/cousin/best friend) is moving to or moved to] North Carolina. 'Cause, you know, they hear that you can buy a decent house for less than 3/4 of a ( Read more... )

Maaan, I am way overdue for an update.

kickaha has been working pretty much nonstop for the past... hell, since we moved up here.

Two weeks ago, we finally headed down to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Old Dutch Church, and adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground. I was sad that we had not yet been to Washington Irving's grave and the setting for the Legend of ( Read more... )

My last day of work was Thursday and I drove to NY on Friday. I'm thrilled that I made it through Manhattan before rush hour started on a holiday weekend ( Read more... )